Kindness Quotes
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Freya Stark
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt
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You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
Dalai Lama
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Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
Mother Teresa
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In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.
Maimonides
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A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
Dalai Lama
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
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No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
Ahn Hee-yeon
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Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.
O. S. Hawkins
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People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.
Simon Baker
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
Gautama Buddha
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Truth mandates our highest allegiance though it should never be a barrier to kindness.
William Craig Zwick
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You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
David Rockefeller
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Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
Confucius
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He who once gains such love carries the dog's life in his hand. But let him who reads note well, and remember that there is only one coin that can purchase such love, and that is kindness. The coin, too, must be genuine. Kindness merely expressed will not do, it must be felt.
R. M. Ballantyne
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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
Barack Obama
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It is important to reflect on the kindness of others. Every aspect of our present well-being is due to others' hard work. The buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are all provided by others. None of them would exist but for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
Dalai Lama
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I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
Brigitte Bardot
